“in the upper echelon of our finest contemporary song composers”
— American Record Guide
“some of the most ravishingly beautiful music that I know in the repertoire.”
John Michael Cooper, Journeys blog
"an uncanny ability to get stuck in your head"
Maria Mazzaro, Opera News
“eminently singable”
Guy Rickards, Gramophone
“[a] thoroughly first-class release”
Gregory Berg, The Journal of Singing
“one is repeatedly dazzled by her compositional versatility and imagination”
Ron Schepper, Textura
“This disc is itself a treasure—another example of the inexhaustible font of imagination that is Lori Laitman.
A glorious outpouring of song.”
Colin Clarke, Fanfare
“in the upper echelon of our finest contemporary song composers”
Robert A. Moore, American Record Guide
Want List for Colin Clarke [2021]:
“Sticking with vocal music…Are Women People? The Songs of Lori Laitman on Acis offers a thrown-down gauntlet (are women people?) and runs with it in the most intelligent, beautiful fashion imaginable, fearlessly tackling texts from writers of the stature of Margaret Atwood (Orange Afternoon Lover) and Alice Duer Miller. Laitman’s voice continues to shine brightly, her Schubertian fount of music seemingly unending.”
Colin Clarke, Fanfare
Are Women People? The Songs of Lori Laitman
World Premiere recordings: *
Orange Afternoon Lover
Poems by Margaret Atwood
Maureen McKay, soprano; Andrew Rosenblum, piano
1. I. Against Still Life
2. II. I Was Reading a Scientific Article
3. III. I Am Sitting on the Edge
*Are Women People?
Poems by Alice Duer Miller, speech by Susan B. Anthony, text from The U.S. Constitution
Fourth Coast Ensemble: Sarah van der Ploeg, soprano; Bridget Skaggs, mezzo-soprano; Ace Gangoso, tenor; David Govertsen, baritone; Piano: Andrew Rosenblum, primo; Maria Sumareva, secondo
*4. I. A Suggested Campaign Song
*5. II. Without the Power to Vote
*6. III. Take Pity
*7. IV. Warning to Suffragists
*8. V. Relic
*9. VI. The Most Ignorant
*10. VII. Home and Where It Is
*11. VIII. The 19th Amendment
*12. Lullaby [World Premiere Recording of violin/piano version]
Tarn Travers, violin; Andrew Rosenblum, piano
*Dark Spring
Poems by Eugenio Montale, translated by Dana Gioia
Kyle Knapp, tenor; Andrew Rosenblum, piano
*13. I. The Flower on the Mountainside
*14. II. The Spirit
*15. III. Scissors, Don’t Cut Away
*16. IV. You Know This
Days and Nights
Poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, Francis Bourdillon, and Christina Rossetti
Nicole Cabell, soprano; Andrew Rosenblum, piano
17. I. Along with Me
18. II. They Might Not Need Me
19. III. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
20. IV. Over The Fence
21. V. Song
22. VI. Wild Nights
*23. Distant Lyghts
Tarn Travers, violin; Andrew Rosenblum, piano
*24. Marriage of Many Years
Poem by Dana Gioia
Maureen McKay, soprano; Lori Laitman, piano
*25. The Treasure Song
Libretto by Dana Gioia, from the opera The Three Feathers
Daniel Belcher, baritone; Andrew Rosenblum, piano
Total Time: 64:04
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